diff --git a/booking-mvc/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/config/webmvc-config.xml b/booking-mvc/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/config/webmvc-config.xml
index 015df08..fd03282 100644
--- a/booking-mvc/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/config/webmvc-config.xml
+++ b/booking-mvc/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/config/webmvc-config.xml
@@ -51,7 +51,6 @@
 	<bean id="templateResolver"
 		  class="org.thymeleaf.templateresolver.ServletContextTemplateResolver">
 		<property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/" />
-		<property name="suffix" value=".html" />
 		<property name="templateMode" value="HTML5" />
 	</bean>
 
diff --git a/booking-mvc/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/intro.html b/booking-mvc/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/intro.html
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4212158
--- /dev/null
+++ b/booking-mvc/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/intro.html
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+<div xmlns:th="http://www.thymeleaf.org">
+	<h1>Welcome to Spring Travel</h1>
+	<p>
+	 	This sample demonstrates how to use Spring MVC and Spring Web Flow together with JavaServerPages (JSP) and Tiles.
+	</p>
+	<hr/>
+	<p>
+		The key features illustrated in this sample include:
+	</p>
+	<ul>
+		<li>A declarative navigation model enabling full browser button support and dynamic navigation rules</li>
+		<li>A fine-grained state management model, including support for ConversationScope and ViewScope</li>
+		<li>Modularization of web application functionality by domain use case, illustrating project structure best-practices</li>
+		<li>Spring Expression Language (SpEL) integration</li>
+		<li>Spring 3 formatting annotations @DateTimeFormat, @NumberFormat</li>
+		<li>Spring MVC custom namespace</li>
+		<li>Spring Security integration</li>
+		<li>Annotated POJO @Controllers for implementing RESTful user interactions.</li>
+		<li>Declarative page authoring with JSP, JSTL, and Spring MVC's form tag library</li>
+		<li>Page layout and composition with Apache Tiles</li>
+		<li>A JavaScript API for decorating HTML elements with behaviors such as Ajax, validation, and effects.</li>
+		<li>A grid layout with Blueprint CSS</li>
+		<li>Exception handling support across all layers of the application</li>
+		<li>SpringSource Tool Suite integration, with support for graphical flow modeling and visualization</li>
+	</ul>
+	<p>
+		<a href="hotels/search.html" th:href="@{/hotels/search}">Start your Spring Travel experience</a>
+	</p>
+</div>
diff --git a/booking-mvc/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/views.xml b/booking-mvc/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/views.xml
index f6c7327..42aca64 100644
--- a/booking-mvc/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/views.xml
+++ b/booking-mvc/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/views.xml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 <tiles-definitions>
 	
 	<definition name="intro" extends="standardLayout" templateType="jsp">
-		<put-attribute name="body" value="/WEB-INF/intro.jsp" type="jsp"/>
+		<put-attribute name="body" value="intro.html"/>
 	</definition>
 	
 	<definition name="login" extends="standardLayout" templateType="jsp">